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New Scientist Quantum computer works best switched off - News

Okay I have a sick fascination with quantum theory. Not that I really understand it completely, or even semi completely, okay not very well at all, but I do find Schrodinger's Cat kind of cool.

The brilliant researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have built a "non-running" quantum computer that really works. In perhaps the understatement of the year, the team member Onur Hosten commented:

"It is very bizarre that you know your computer has not run but you also know what the answer is."

I couldnt' agree more, even if I understood it.